Legal Opinion
Saranchak v. Beard
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 4, 2008No. Civil 1:CV-05-0317PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
SYLVIA H. RAMBO, District Judge.
Before the court is a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, filed by petitioner Daniel Saranc-hak (“Saranchak”), a Pennsylvania inmate sentenced to death by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for murdering his grandmother and uncle. For the reasons that follow, the petition will be granted in part and leave will be given to the Commonwealth to conduct a new guilt phase hearing and sentencing hearing.
I. Facts and Procedural History
On September 1,1994, before Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin of…
2Cases cited94 opinions
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- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Miller-El v. CockrellSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Saranchak v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2015
- Saranchak v. BeardCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2010
- Jackson v. ConwayDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 2011
- Fulks v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 2010
- Com. v. Saranchak, D.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2019